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Falmouth outlines outfall design, monitoring and permit path; USGS says aquifer impact unlikely
Summary
Wastewater superintendent Amy Woll described expanded eelgrass and benthic surveys, a two‑year baseline water‑quality program and marine soil borings for a proposed 2,000,000 gpd outfall; preliminary USGS modeling suggested no significant impact to the town’s drinking‑water aquifer, with the USGS report due July 2025.
Amy Woll, Falmouth’s wastewater superintendent, updated the Water Quality Management Committee on the town’s planned wastewater outfall and related baseline monitoring and permitting.
Woll said the town has stood up a regulatory review team and expanded its eelgrass and benthic survey area to provide regulators a broad before‑after gradient. The town began a two‑year baseline monitoring program in Nantucket Sound, collecting dissolved oxygen, temperature, salinity, pH, water clarity twice monthly and a suite of nutrient and biological indicators monthly at three near‑to‑offshore locations. The town expects to complete the baseline next summer and use the data in MEPA filings.
Woll told the…
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